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Christmas is coming fast and furious and New Year's Eve will be following right behind. Now is the time to start thinking about what you will be doing on December 31st at midnight! Might I suggest a fun little soiree with your closest friends that plays on the well known celebration of "Chinese New Year"... This fun event was inspired by my…

Four days and counting until the big day! Are you like me and still doing your last minute decorating, baking and shopping, or do you have everything already wrapped up under a perfectly decorated tree? Let's see if you have made your list and checked it twice... 1. Are these all hung?? 2. Are these all wrapped??…

Buttery Pound Cake with Nutella Swirl is a favorite with my daughter and now... her friends! The story goes, my daughter Kate had some at school recently and shared it with a friend of hers.  He asked Kate to make him a cake of his own... Long story short... he took…

Creamy Potato Soup is something that my mother Linda always made for me when I was a child... Traditionally,  we would eat it while watching one of the Christmas shows that came on only once a year like Frosty, Rudolph or Charlie Brown Christmas.  Other times, mom would make it without our asking when we were not feeling well and needed some TLC!  It was…

Forgive me but I caught a cold on the way back from our first leg of the tour and now I am so, so late in catching you up to where all we've been...and we've been to so many wonderful places! If I recall correctly...we left off at Moon Mippy San Antonio {mind you BEFORE Thanksgiving...yikes}.  I've got…

Kristin and I headed to Little Rock, Arkansas for the last round of cookbook signings for 2011. It is bittersweet as I have really enjoyed traveling to these many different cities, seeing the unique style of each store and meeting and getting to know each store owner and staff in a different way rather than just during market. This trip should be the easiest yet as we will land…